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Antirrhinum multiflorum
Pennell
Sticky snapdragon (syn. Antirrhinum glandulosum)
 Family: Scrophulariaceae
Habit:
Glandular sub-shrub 6 to 15 dm. tall, erect.
Distribution:
Found in rocky or disturbed places, in chaparral and
mountainous areas of
south San Francisco
Bay
and the south coast range.
Seed
unit: Free
seed with or without seed coat.
Seed: Brown,
ovoid, 1 mm. long with broken wing-like ridges.
Embryo: Linear
in fleshy endosperm.
 Purity
instructions: Pure
seed definition:
AOSA:
PSU #1 - Seed, with or without seed coat.
Piece of broken seed, with or without seed coat, larger than
one-half the original size.
Lab
notes: Pieces
of seed coat might be misidentified as pure seed.
Average
pure seed units per gram:
5,650 seeds per gram (based on AOSA pure seed units only
from four (4) samples received for testing from 1996 to
2001).
Range of
percent pure seed:
55% to 64%
Range of
percent inert: 35%
to 44%
Description of inert:
Broken seed, plant material.
Planting
instructions:
400
seeds, TB, 12 days @ 20-30°C; for fresh and dormant seed,
15°C and GA3 recommended.
References:
(link
to main reference page)
Hickman, J.C., Ed. 1993. p. 1015.
Ransom Seed Laboratory |
